At a summer lunch with reporters in her Capitol conference room, Rep. Nancy Pelosi rolled out an ambitious economic agenda for women with next year’s congressional elections in mind.

The California Democrat launched a legislative agenda of family-friendly policies, such as paycheck fairness for women, an increased federal minimum wage, and President Barack Obama’s proposed early childhood education initiative.

The agenda, coming as the legislative season begins to make way for next year’s campaigns, was designed to stand in contrast to bills being debated under the GOP majority on the House floor. “It’s all about letting women know there’s an opportunity for something different,” Pelosi said…

“Women are really struggling today,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Ct., a longtime champion of women’s issues, who sat to Pelosi’s right. “They’re looking for an increase in their income, in equal pay, in education opportunities – that’s the focus of this agenda.” …

“If making this fuss impacts their [Republicans]] decision making, that for us is the success,” Pelosi said. “We would rather they join us in this, rather than our having this as a political weapon.”

Riiiight. Because I’m sure that this has nothing to do with rehashing a bunch of Democratic policy initiatives into somehow women-specific issues in order to perpetuate the idea of women as some kind of political Other as well as preserving the handy-dandy War-on-Women meme by eviscerating Republicans when they don’t automatically go along with it. Who cares that Republicans are standing firm against a bunch of terrible and economically damaging policy ideas? They’re anti-women! And goodness knows that whole united-front approach to ObamaCare in the run-up to the 2014 midterms isn’t panning out, so she’s going to need to give her caucus something else to talk about. You know, besides our currently stagnant economy and the ways in which further taxes, regulations, and government “investments” under President Obama have pretty much failed to help women or anybody else find jobs, start businesses, grow their income, or pursue economic opportunities to a degree that can get our economy moving again.

I.e., a lot of the same sorts of contortions that President Obama will be pulling tomorrow in his own economic speech. Hooray.

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If you don’t want Nancy Pelosi to return to her role as Speaker of the House of Representatives, make sure you have a strong Republican candidate ready to run for Congress in your District in the 2014 election.

Republicans must maintain or increase their Majority in the House in 2014 in order to prevent Nancy Pelosi from getting her Speaker’s gavel and taxpayer funded airplane back.

The California Democrat launched a legislative agenda of family-friendly policies, such as paycheck fairness for women, an increased federal minimum wage, and President Barack Obama’s proposed early childhood education initiative.

So basically –

Pass more frivolous laws to enhance a lawyers ability to break up a woman or her husband’s business.

Price a woman’s low-skilled teenager out of the job market.

Give government more opportunities to propagandize a woman’s children even when they are barely out of diapers, while also taxing her more to pay for it, while -triple whammy- also offering absolutely no measurable educational impact on the child.

I don’t know why Democrats hate women with families so much. Oh right, because the apex of how they view women – Julia – is a government-dependent single mom!

I thought that was what the Stimulus was all about?
It certainly didn’t do anything for the male-dominated construction trades, but seemed to be all about maintaining state and local bureaucracies, which seem to be dominated by women these days.

The California Democrat launched a legislative agenda of family-friendly policies, such as paycheck fairness for women, an increased federal minimum wage, and President Barack Obama’s proposed early childhood education initiative.

No such things as “family-friendly” dem policies. All of these are Orwellian labels for “BigGov-friendly” policies to increase government dependency, strengthen unions and attract more low-info dem voters and designed to negatively impact the traditional family.

I’m a woman and I’m deeply offended that the old bat thinks that my needs are different from men’s and that I’m too stupid and incompetent to take care of myself. Honestly, the Dems think that women are totally helpless.

I’m a woman and I’m deeply offended that the old bat thinks that my needs are different from men’s and that I’m too stupid and incompetent to take care of myself. Honestly, the Dems think that women are totally helpless.

“Women are really struggling today,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Ct., a longtime champion of women’s issues, who sat to Pelosi’s right. “They’re looking for an increase in their income, in equal pay, in education opportunities – that’s the focus of this agenda.” …

So of course, they’ll start by calling out the current occupant of the White House for his abysmal record of paying women less than men – right gals?

If women didn’t vote, there would be no Democrat party. Thus, Democrats have to fight the “war on women” that they made up and roll out an economic agenda for them.

Imagine the backlash if Ted Cruz rolled out an economic agenda for men. The simple fact is that every group, other than white men, get to roll out their own agendas for everything under the sun. It’s really getting tiring.

EVERY Federal government education initiative of the last 50+ years has FAILED!

This INSANITY must stop. After claiming in Iowa that he would end the federal department of education, Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was pushing for yet ANOTHER Federal education plan in the last few weeks of his FAILED campaign.

Let us all pretend it was Romney’s stance on illegal immigration that was his problem.

yeah, well, at the risk of being labeled misogynist, women have many other reasons why the statistics show they are “underpaid”. And most women do have the option of latching on with a man for supplemental income. Men? Not so much. They have to work. Lest they might be pushed into a life of crime.

My wife works, but she can get by with part time, because of my job. And I think that’s fantastic, after all she gave birth to our sons and was home more to help them grow in the right ways.